
Golden Bough. Part VI. The Scapegoat
by James Frazer
'Golden Bough. Part VI. The Scapegoat' Summary
The Scapegoat examines the use of the Dying God as a scapegoat to free his worshippers from troubles of all sorts. Frazer traces this curious usage to its origin, decomposing the idea of the Divine Scapegoat into the elements out of which it appears to be compounded. He argues that the idea resolves itself into a simple confusion between the material and the immaterial, between the real possibility of transferring a physical load to other shoulders and the supposed possibility of transferring our bodily and mental ailments to another who will bear them for us. Frazer also includes an account of the remarkable religious ritual of the Aztecs, in which the theory of the Dying God found its most systematic and most tragic expression.Book Details
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James Frazer
Scotland
Sir James George Frazer was a Scottish social anthropologist and folklorist influential in the early stages of the modern studies of mythology and comparative religion. His most famous work, The Golde...
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